Bandera - who is it? How the Soviet secret services defeated the Bandera OUN-UP during World War II

After the Battle of Kursk, Soviet troops finally seized the strategic initiative and began to liberate Ukraine. In November 1943, Kyiv was cleared of the Germans, after which in the first half of 1944 the Korsun-Shevchenko and Lvov-Sandomierz operations were carried out to liberate the territories west of the Dnieper. At this time, the Red Army soldiers clashed with units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)*.

Liberate Ukraine

After the defeat of the Nazis on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943, the Red Army was rapidly approaching the Dnieper. The Germans hastily strengthened their positions. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)*, one of whose leaders was Stepan Bandera, also prepared to repel the advance of Soviet troops. For these purposes, a hasty mobilization of the armed wing of the organization was carried out - the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (now an extremist organization banned in Russia).

Its backbone consisted of people from Western Ukraine who shared nationalist ideas and professed radical anti-Sovietism. Organizationally, the UPA* was divided into several units autonomous from each other: “West” (Lviv region), “North” (Volyn) and “East”. The main combat units were battalions (300-500 soldiers) and companies (100-150 people), as well as platoons of 30-40 soldiers. They were armed with rifles, machine guns and even Hungarian tankettes and anti-tank guns.

According to historians, by January 1944, that is, by the time the Red Army began operations in Right Bank Ukraine, the number of UPA* was about 80 thousand people. Of these, about 30 thousand were constantly under arms, the rest were dispersed throughout villages and towns and were involved in combat operations as needed.

Units of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of Army General Nikolai Vatutin were the first to enter the battle with Bandera. The nationalists initially tried not to get involved in major clashes with units of the Red Army, preferring the tactics of small attacks.

War on a grand scale

This went on for several months, until on March 27, near the village of Lipki in the Rivne region, Soviet troops surrounded two battalions of Bandera’s supporters. The battle lasted about six hours. About 400 bandits were killed on the spot, and the rest were pushed back to the river.

When trying to cross it by swimming, about 90 people drowned, only nine people were captured by the Red Army - all that was left of the two UPA battalions*. The report addressed to Joseph Stalin said that one of the commanders, nicknamed Gamal, was identified among the corpses.

Another major battle took place two days later near the village of Baskino in the same Rivne region. A Bandera detachment of several hundred people was taken by surprise by Soviet soldiers. The UPA* bandits were pushed back to the river and began crossing. And everything would have been fine, but on the opposite bank an auxiliary company of Red Army soldiers was waiting for them. As a result, the nationalists lost more than 100 people.

Climax

But the largest battle between the Red Army and the UPA* took place on April 21-25, 1944 near the Gurba tract in the Rivne region. The battle was preceded by an attack by Bandera at the end of February on General Vatutin, as a result of which he died. To deal with the armed detachments of nationalists, the 1st Ukrainian Front, which Georgy Zhukov began to command after the death of Vatutin, allocated an additional cavalry division, artillery and eight tanks.

On the UPA side, detachments of the “North” unit with a total number of about five thousand people took part in the battle. Soviet troops had significant superiority, having 25-30 thousand soldiers. As for the tanks, according to some sources, there were eight of them; according to other sources, the Soviet command used 15 armored vehicles. There is also evidence of the use of aviation by the Red Army. Despite the numerical advantage of the Soviet units, Bandera’s troops had excellent knowledge of the area and, to a certain extent, the help of the local population.

The battle itself was an attempt to break through the main forces of Bandera through the front line into territory controlled by the German army. Lasting for several days, the battle eventually ended in a decisive victory for the Red Army. More than two thousand UPA* soldiers were killed, and about one and a half thousand were captured. The losses of Soviet troops amounted to about a thousand people killed and wounded. Despite the fact that the remaining Banderaites were able to break through to the Germans, the backbone of the “North” unit was defeated. This significantly facilitated the task of further liberation of Western Ukraine.

Another major operation against Bandera was carried out by the Red Army at the height of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation. On August 22-27, Soviet rifle and cavalry units conducted a raid on fortified points and camps of the UPA* in the Lviv region. More than 3.2 thousand bandits were destroyed, more than a thousand were captured. The Soviet troops received an armored personnel carrier, a car, 21 machine guns and five mortars as trophies.

Roundup war

In 1945, at the last stage of the Great Patriotic War, when the front line went far to the west, the so-called round-up tactics were mainly used against the “runaways.” Its essence was that first reconnaissance in force was carried out in order to call the nationalist forces into open battle. When they got involved, the main Soviet forces came into action. This tactic was much more effective than searching for armed bandits in the mountains and forests.

Raid operations were also sometimes carried out on a large scale. Thus, in April 1945, a 50,000-strong group under the command of General Mikhail Marchenkov defeated the UPA* forces in the Carpathian region on the line of the new Soviet-Polish border. More than a thousand Banderaites were killed, several thousand were arrested.

After the end of the war, the surviving nationalists finally switched to guerrilla warfare tactics. It was possible to put an end to the Bandera underground only by the beginning of the 1950s.

*- Organization prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation

An ethno-political conflict accompanied by the mass destruction by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army-OUN(b) of the ethnic Polish civilian population and, on a smaller scale, civilians of other nationalities, including Ukrainians, in the territory of Volyn, which was under Polish control until September 1939, which began in March 1943 and peaking in July of that year.
In the course of the “Map” study conducted in Poland, it was found that as a result of the actions of the UPA-OUN (B) and the SB OUN (B), in which part of the local Ukrainian population and sometimes detachments of Ukrainian nationalists of other movements took part, the number of Poles killed in Volyn amounted to at least 36,543 - 36,750 people whose names and places of death were established. In addition, the same study estimated from 13,500 to more than 23,000 Poles whose deaths were unclear.
In general, historians agree that at least 30-40 thousand Poles became victims of the massacre in Volyn alone; probabilistic estimates by some experts increase these figures to 50-60 thousand, and taking into account other territories, the number of victims among the Polish population reached 75-100 thousand , during the discussion about the number of victims on the Polish side, estimates were given from 30 to 80 thousand

2. Lviv pogrom - July 1941

Jewish pogrom in Lvov in July 1941. Ukrainian nationalists from Stepan Bandera's OUN, as well as the German administration, took part in the pogrom. During the pogrom, local Jews were caught, beaten, abused on the streets of the city, and then shot. Several thousand Jews became victims of the pogrom.
On July 1, a large-scale pogrom began in the city. Jews were caught and arrested, beaten and humiliated. In particular, they were forced to clean the streets, for example, one Jew was forced to remove horse manure from the streets with his hat. Women were beaten with sticks and various objects, stripped naked and driven through the streets, some were raped. They also beat pregnant women.
Then some of the Jews were sent to prisons to exhume the corpses of executed prisoners; during the work they were also beaten and humiliated. One of the Jews, Kurt Lewin, especially remembered a Ukrainian dressed in a beautiful embroidered shirt. He beat the Jews with an iron stick, cutting off pieces of skin, ears and knocking out eyes. Then he took a club and pierced the head of one Jew, the victim’s brains fell on Levin’s face and clothes.

3. Executions at Babi Yar - 1941

Babi Yar gained worldwide fame as the site of mass executions of civilians, mainly Jews, Gypsies, Kiev Karaites, and Soviet prisoners of war, carried out by German occupation forces and Ukrainian collaborators in 1941.
In total, over one hundred (or one hundred and fifty) thousand people were shot. According to other researchers, about one hundred and fifty thousand people (residents of Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine) were shot at Babi Yar alone. 29 people escaped from Babi Yar.

4. Liquidation of the Rivne Jewish ghetto - July 1942
At the beginning of the Nazi occupation, half the city's population were Jews. In 1941, between November 6-8, 23,000 Jews were shot in the Sosenki forest. The remaining 5,000 were herded into a ghetto and killed by Ukrainian collaborators in July 1942.

In accordance with the principle of collective punishment, 149 residents of Khatyn were burned alive or shot for possible assistance by village residents to the partisans. The “118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion,” composed primarily of ethnic Ukrainians, took part in the punitive operation. The battalion included Ukrainian nationalists from the disbanded Bukovina Kuren, associated with the OUN (m).
The battalion was commanded by the former Polish major Smovsky, the chief of staff was the former senior lieutenant of the Red Army Grigory Vasyura, the platoon commander was the former lieutenant of the Red Army Vasily Meleshko.

6. Murder of Lvov professors - July 1941

Mass murders of representatives of the Polish intelligentsia of Lviv (about 45 Polish scientists and teachers, mainly from Lviv University, members of their families and guests), committed in July 1941 in Lviv by German occupation forces with the participation of punitive units of the OUN and UPA

7. The tragedy of Janova Dolina - April 1943
The first mass extermination of the Polish civilian population in the initial period of the “Volyn Massacre”, committed on April 22-23, 1943 in the village of Yanovaya Dolina of the general district “Volyn-Podolia” of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine by detachments of the 1st Group of the UPA under the command of I. Litvinchuk (“Dubovoy” ). In the village of Yanovaya Dolina (now Basaltovoye, Kostopol district, Rivne region), almost all Polish residents were killed.

8. Lipniki massacre - March 1943

On the night of March 26, 1943, a UPA gang under the command of Litvinchuk-Dubovy attacked the village of Lipniki (Kostopolsky District, Rivne region). There were about 700 people in the village at that time, mostly women and children. There were almost no men. Of these, a small self-defense detachment of 21 people was created. They created a small self-defense detachment, however, the forces were too unequal. Dubovoy’s militants were the first to approach the village, followed by a crowd of Ukrainian peasants from neighboring villages with pitchforks and axes. They knew that in Lipniki there were practically no forces to fight back and therefore they boldly went to kill.
Self-defense guards noticed the approach of Ukrainian gangs and gave a signal. Due to the inequality of power, women and children were ordered to leave the village for the forest. However, it was at night, many could not move so fast. About 100 women and children were surrounded by Ukrainian Nazis in a reclamation ditch, and several dozen more people were caught in the village. A wild massacre began with the cutting off of heads and the killing of children in front of their mothers. The Ukrainian Nazis of the UPA brutally killed 179 people, including 51 children. By nationality, among the dead were 174 Poles; 4 Jews who took refuge in Lipniki from the Holocaust, and one Russian woman.

9. Punitive operations in Slovakia - September 1944

On September 28, 1944, combat-ready units of the SS Galicia division were deployed to suppress the Slovak Uprising (KG Beyersdorff). By mid-October 1944, all units of the division, operating as part of the battle groups KG Wittenmayer and KG Wildner, were transferred there.
During its stay in Slovakia, the so-called SS Dirlewanger brigade, known for its war crimes, was subordinate to the division for some time. Units of the division, together with this brigade, participated in a number of operations against Slovak partisans and the local population supporting them. Only fragmentary documentation has been preserved about the behavior of the troops of the division itself during the suppression of the uprising; Slovak historian Jan Korcek provides detailed data on nine cases of war crimes; it is known that during the raid on the village of Smercany, 80 of 120 houses were burned and four civilians were killed, in the village of Nizna Boca - five. The chief of staff of the division, Wolf-Dietrich Heike, wrote in his memoirs about individual “unfortunate incidents” against the civilian population.

10. Extermination of Jews in Chudnov - October 1941

Ukrainian police participated in the liquidation of the Jewish population in Chudnov (500 people, October 16, 1941)

11. Massacre in Dubno - October 1942

On April 4, 1942, a Jewish ghetto was created in Dubno. On May 27, 1942, about 3,800 Jews were killed on the outskirts of the city. And a few months later, Ukrainian punitive forces carried out another massacre. On October 5, 1942, Ukrainian police shot 5 thousand Jews in Dubno. On October 24, 1942, the last ghetto prisoners were exterminated

12. The tragedy of Guta Penyatskaya - February 1944

Mass extermination of the civilian population (ethnic Poles and the Jews they sheltered) in the village of Guta Penyatskaya (government general, now Brody district, Ukraine). On February 28, 1944, by the personnel of the 4th police regiment of the SS Volunteer Division "Galicia" under the command of SS Sturmbannführer Siegfried Banz with the participation of UPA units and the Ukrainian police. Of the more than a thousand residents of Guta Penyatskaya, no more than 50 people survived. More than 500 residents were burned alive in the church and their own homes. The settlement was completely burned, leaving only the skeletons of stone buildings - a school and a church. After the war, the settlement was not restored; a memorial sign was erected at the site of the death of civilians, which disappeared in the 1990s. In 2005, a memorial to those killed was opened.

13. Ethnic cleansing of Central and Western Ukraine at the beginning of the German occupation - 1941

According to research, the police and detachments organized by local leaders of the OUN(b) operated at the end of June-August 1941 in many places in the Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kiev, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and some other regions. In this territory, the police created by the OUN(b) played a supporting role in the mass executions carried out by the Nazis, as well as in less massive and isolated killings of prisoners of war and local residents.

14. Burning of Belarusian villages in the Polotsk region - March 1943

The 50th Ukrainian security battalion participated in the anti-partisan operation on the territory of Belarus “Winter Magic” (German: Winterzauber) in the Sebezh - Osveya - Polotsk triangle, carried out in February - March 1943. During this operation, 158 settlements were looted and burned, including including the villages burned along with their people: Ambrazeevo, Aniskovo, Buly, Zhernoseki, Kalyuty, Konstantinovo, Paporotnoye, Sokolovo.

15. Massacre in a Polish monastery near the village of Podkamen - March 1944.

The 4th regiment of the SS division "Galicia", consisting of ethnic Ukrainians, with the assistance of a UPA detachment, carried out a massacre in the Dominican monastery of the village of Pidkamen. More than 250 Poles were killed[

16.Mass murders and ethnic cleansing in the post-war years - 1945-53.

The USSR's victory over Nazi Germany did not mark the end of the fight against Hitler's henchmen in Ukraine. For several more years, units of the NKVD and the Red Army hunted down and destroyed the underdogs from the ranks of the UPA, who meanwhile continued their atrocities. In 1944-53, as a result of the actions of the UPA, 30,676 Soviet citizens died, including military personnel - 6,476, government officials - 2,732, party workers - 251, Komsomol workers - 207, collective farmers - 15,669, workers - 676, intellectuals - 1,931, children, old people, housewives - 860.

I'm raising the post again!

The events described took place more than half a century ago.
This post was not created to incite hatred towards Ukrainians, forcing us to project ancient evil onto modern people. It only shows how brutality was accompanied by fascism and how FEAR makes animals out of people.

Volyn massacre (Polish: Rzez wolynska) (Volyn tragedy, Ukrainian: Volinska tragedy, Polish: Tragedia Wolynia) - an ethno-political conflict accompanied by the mass extermination (by Bandera) of the Ukrainian insurgent army-OUN(b) of the ethnic Polish civilian population and civilians of other nationalities, including Ukrainians, in the territories of the Volyn-Podolia district (German: Generalbezirk Wolhynien-Podolien), until September 1939, under Polish control, which began in March 1943 and reached its peak in July of the same year.

In the spring of 1943, large-scale ethnic cleansing began in Volyn, occupied by German troops. This criminal action was carried out not by the Nazis, but by militants of the Organization
Ukrainian nationalists who sought to “cleanse” the territory of Volyn from the Polish population. Ukrainian nationalists surrounded Polish villages and colonies and then started killing. They killed everyone - women, old people, children, infants. The victims were shot, beaten with clubs, and chopped with axes. Then the corpses of the destroyed Poles were buried somewhere in the field, their property was robbed, and their houses were finally set on fire. In place of the Polish villages, only charred ruins remained.
They also destroyed those Poles who lived in the same villages as the Ukrainians. It was even easier - there was no need to gather large detachments. Groups of OUN members of several people walked through the sleeping village, entered the houses of the Poles and killed everyone. And then local residents buried the murdered fellow villagers of the “wrong” nationality.

This is how several tens of thousands of people were killed, whose only guilt was that they were not born Ukrainians and lived on Ukrainian soil.
Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (Bandera movement) /OUN(b), OUN-B/, or revolutionary /OUN(r), OUN-R/, and also (briefly in 1943) independent-power /OUN(sd), OUN-SD / (Ukrainian Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera Rukh)) is one of the factions of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Currently (since 1992), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists calls itself the successor of the OUN(b).
In the course of the “Map” study conducted in Poland, it was found that as a result of the actions of the UPA-OUN (B) and the SB OUN (B), in which part of the local Ukrainian population and sometimes detachments of Ukrainian nationalists of other movements took part, the number of Poles killed in Volyn amounted to at least 36,543 - 36,750 people whose names and places of death were established. In addition, the same study estimated from 13,500 to more than 23,000 Poles whose deaths were unclear.
A number of researchers say that probably about 50-60 thousand Poles became victims of the massacre; during the discussion about the number of victims on the Polish side, estimates were given from 30 to 80 thousand.
These massacres were a real massacre. An idea of ​​the nightmarish cruelty of the Volyn genocide is given by a fragment from the book of the famous historian Timothy Snyder:
“The first edition of the UPA newspaper, published in July, promised a “shameful death” for all Poles remaining in Ukraine. The UPA was able to carry out its threats. For approximately twelve hours, from the evening of July 11, 1943 until the morning of July 12, the UPA launched attacks on 176 settlements... During 1943, UPA units and special detachments of the OUN Security Service killed Poles both individually and collectively in Polish settlements and villages, as well as those Poles who lived in Ukrainian villages. According to numerous, mutually corroborating reports, Ukrainian nationalists and their allies burned houses, shot or chased inside those who tried to escape, and killed those who were caught on the street with sickles and pitchforks. Churches filled with parishioners were burned to the ground. To intimidate the surviving Poles and force them to flee, the bandits displayed beheaded, crucified, dismembered or disemboweled bodies.”

Even the Germans were amazed at their sadism - gouging out eyes, ripping open bellies and brutal torture before death were commonplace. They killed everyone - women, children...

The genocide began in the cities. Men of the “wrong” nationality were immediately taken to prison, where they were later shot.

and violence against women occurred in broad daylight for the amusement of the public. Among the Banderaites there were many who wanted to get in line/take an active part...

She was lucky... Bandera's men forced her to walk on her knees with her hands raised.

Later, Bandera’s followers “got a taste for it.”

On February 9, 1943, Bandera members from the gang of Pyotr Netovich, under the guise of Soviet partisans, entered the Polish village of Parosle near Vladimirets, Rivne region. The peasants, who had previously provided assistance to the partisans, warmly welcomed the guests. Having eaten their fill, the bandits began to rape women and girls.

Before being killed, their chests, noses and ears were cut off.
Men were deprived of their genitals before death. They finished off with ax blows to the head.
Two teenagers, the Gorshkevich brothers, who tried to call real partisans for help, had their bellies cut open, their legs and arms cut off, their wounds generously covered with salt, leaving them half-dead to die in the field. In total, 173 people were brutally tortured in this village, including 43 children. When the partisans entered the village on the second day, they saw piles of mutilated bodies lying in pools of blood in the villagers’ houses. In one of the houses, on the table, among scraps and unfinished bottles of moonshine, lay a dead one-year-old child, whose naked body was nailed to the boards of the table with a bayonet. The monsters stuffed a half-eaten pickled cucumber into his mouth.

LIPNIKI, Kostopol County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. A resident of the Lipniki colony - Yakub Varumzer without a head, the result of a massacre committed under the cover of darkness by OUN-UPA terrorists. As a result of this Lipniki massacre, 179 Polish residents died, as well as Poles from the surrounding area seeking shelter there. These were mostly women, old people and children (51 - aged from 1 to 14 years), 4 Jews and 1 Russian in hiding. 22 people were injured. 121 Polish victims were identified by name and surname - residents of Lipnik, who were known to the author. Three aggressors also lost their lives.

PODYARKOV, Bobrka County, Lwów Voivodeship. August 16, 1943. The results of torture inflicted on Kleshchinskaya’s mother, from a Polish family of four.

One night, Bandera’s men brought a whole family from the village of Volkovya to the forest. They mocked unfortunate people for a long time. Then, seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut her stomach, tore out the fetus from it, and instead stuffed a live rabbit into it. One night, bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovaya. Over 100 peaceful peasants were killed within 1.5 hours. A bandit with an ax in his hands burst into Nastya Dyagun’s hut and hacked to death her three sons. The youngest, four-year-old Vladik, had his arms and legs cut off.

One of the two Kleshchinsky families in Podyarkov was martyred by the OUN-UPA on August 16, 1943. The photo shows a family of four - spouses and two children. The victims' eyes were gouged out, they were hit on the head, their palms were burned, they tried to chop off their upper and lower limbs, as well as their hands, they had puncture wounds all over their bodies, etc.

The girl in the center, Stasia Stefaniak, was killed because of her Polish father. Her mother Maria Boyarchuk, a Ukrainian, was also killed that night. Because of the husband... Mixed families aroused special hatred among the Rezuns. In the village of Zalesie Koropetskoe (Ternopil region) on February 7, 1944 there was an even more terrible incident. A UPA gang attacked the village with the aim of massacring the Polish population. About 60 people, mostly women and children, were herded into a barn where they were burned alive. One of those killed that day was from a mixed family - half Pole, half Ukrainian. Bandera's men set a condition for him - he must kill his Polish mother, then he will be left alive. He refused and was killed along with his mother.

TARNOPOL Tarnopol Voivodeship, 1943. One (!) of the trees on the country road, in front of which the OUN-UPA terrorists hung a banner with the inscription translated into Polish: “The Road to Independent Ukraine.” And on every tree on both sides of the road, the executioners created so-called “wreaths” from Polish children.

“The old ones were strangled, and small children under one year old were strangled by the legs - once, they hit their heads on the door - and they were done and ready to go. We felt sorry for our men that they would suffer so much during the night, but they would sleep off during the day and the next night they would go to another village. There were people hiding. If a man was hiding, they were mistaken for women...”
(from interrogation of Bandera)

Prepared “wreaths”

But the Polish Shayer family, a mother and two children, was massacred in their house in Vladinopol in 1943.


LIPNIKI, Kostopol County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. In the foreground are the children - Janusz Bielawski, 3 years old, son of Adele; Roman Bielawski, 5 years old, son of Czeslawa, as well as Jadwiga Bielawska, 18 years old and others. These listed Polish victims are the result of a massacre committed by the OUN-UPA.

LIPNIKI, Kostopol County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. The corpses of Poles - victims of the massacre committed by the OUN - UPA - were brought for identification and burial. Behind the fence stands Jerzy Skulski, who saved his life thanks to the firearm he had.

POLOTS, region, Chortkiv district, Tarnopol voivodeship, forest called Rosohach. January 16 - 17, 1944. The place from which 26 victims were pulled out - Polish residents of the village of Polovtse - taken away by the UPA on the night of January 16-17, 1944 and tortured in the forest.

“..In Novoselki, Rivne region, there was one Komsomol member, Motrya. We took her to Verkhovka to old Zhabsky and let’s get a heart from a living person. Old Salivon held a watch in one hand and a heart in the other to check how long the heart would beat in his hand. And when the Russians came, his sons wanted to erect a monument to him, saying he fought for Ukraine.”
(from interrogation of Bandera)

Belzec, region, Rawa Ruska district, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944. You can see the ripped open belly and entrails, as well as a hand hanging from the skin - the result of an attempt to chop it off. The OUN-UPA case.

Belzec, region, Rawa Ruska district, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944.

Belzec, region, Rawa Ruska district, Lviv voivodeship June 16, 1944. Place of execution in the forest.

LIPNIKI, Kostopol County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. View before the funeral. Polish victims of the night massacre committed by the OUN-UPA were brought to the People's House.

In Poland the Volyn massacre is remembered very well.
This is a scan of the pages of a book. A list of ways in which the Ukrainian Nazis dealt with civilians:

. Driving a large, thick nail into the skull of the head.
. Ripping off hair and skin from the head (scalping).
. Carving of an “eagle” on the forehead (the eagle is the coat of arms of Poland).
. Eye gouging.
. Circumcision of the nose, ears, lips, tongue.
. Piercing children and adults through with stakes.
. Punching a sharpened thick wire right through from ear to ear.
. Cutting the throat and pulling out through the hole of the tongue.
. Knocking out teeth and breaking jaws.
. Tearing the mouth from ear to ear.
. Gagging of mouths with tow while transporting still living victims.
. Rolling the head back.
. Crush the head by placing it in a vice and tightening the screw.
. Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back or face.
. Broken bones (ribs, arms, legs).
. Cutting off women's breasts and pouring salt on the wounds.
. Cutting off the genitals of male victims with a sickle.
. Piercing a pregnant woman's stomach with a bayonet.
. Cutting open the abdomen and pulling out the intestines of adults and children.
. Cutting the abdomen of a woman with an advanced pregnancy and inserting, for example, a live cat instead of the removed fetus and suturing the abdomen.
. Cutting open the abdomen and pouring boiling water inside.
. Cutting open the belly and putting stones inside it, as well as throwing it into the river.
. Cutting open a pregnant woman's belly and pouring broken glass inside.
. Pulling out veins from groin to feet.
. Placing a hot iron into the vagina.
. Inserting pine cones into the vagina with the top side facing forward.
. Inserting a sharpened stake into the vagina and pushing it all the way down to the throat.
. Cutting a woman's front torso with a garden knife from the vagina to the neck and leaving the insides outside.
. Hanging victims by their entrails.
. Inserting a glass bottle into the vagina or anus and breaking it.
. Cutting open the belly and pouring feed flour inside for hungry pigs, who tore out this feed along with intestines and other entrails.
. Chopping/knife/sawing off arms or legs (or fingers and toes).
. Cauterization of the inside of the palm on a hot stove in a coal kitchen.
. Sawing through the body with a saw.
. Sprinkling hot coal on bound feet.
. Nailing your hands to the table and your feet to the floor.
. Chopping an entire body into pieces with an ax.
. Nailing the tongue of a small child, who later hung on it, to the table with a knife.
. Cutting a child into pieces with a knife.
. Nailing a small child to a table with a bayonet.
. Hanging a male child by his genitals from a doorknob.
. Knocking out the joints of a child's legs and arms.
. Throwing a child into the flames of a burning building.
. Breaking a baby's head by picking him up by the legs and hitting him against a wall or stove.
. Placing a child on a stake.
. Hanging a woman upside down from a tree and mocking her - cutting off her breasts and tongue, cutting her stomach, gouging out her eyes, and cutting off pieces of her body with knives.
. Nailing a small child to a door.
. Hanging from a tree with your feet up and scorching your head from below with the fire of a fire lit under your head.
. Drowning children and adults in a well and throwing stones at the victim.
. Driving a stake into the stomach.
. Tying a man to a tree and shooting him at a target.
. Dragging a body along the street with a rope tied around the neck.
. Tying a woman's legs and arms to two trees, and cutting her stomach from the crotch to the chest.
. A mother and three children, tied together, are dragged along the ground.
. Tying one or more victims with barbed wire, pouring cold water on the victim every few hours in order to regain consciousness and feel pain.
. Burying alive up to the neck in the ground and later cutting off the head with a scythe.
. Ripping the torso in half with the help of horses.
. Tearing the torso in half by tying the victim to two bent trees and then freeing them.
. Setting fire to a victim doused in kerosene.
. Placing sheaves of straw around the victim and setting them on fire (Nero's torch).
. Impaling a baby on a pitchfork and throwing him into the flames of a fire.
. Hanging on barbed wire.
. Ripping off the skin from the body and pouring ink or boiling water into the wound.
. Nailing hands to the threshold of a home.

Not all Banderaites were found and convicted after the war. However, those who were put on trial did not receive the longest prison sentences. Even while behind bars, Bandera’s followers continued to fight and organized mass uprisings.

Against Poland

In 1921, the UVO was created in Ukraine - the Ukrainian military organization, designed to fight for the independence of the Ukrainian people after the defeat of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which existed from 1917 to 1920, and was transformed thanks to the successful offensive of the Red Army in the Ukrainian SSR.

The UVO was supported by youth nationalist organizations and the later created Union of Ukrainian Nationalist Youth. Similar organizations were created among Ukrainian emigrants in Czechoslovakia. These were the Union of Ukrainian Fascists and the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, which later united into one league.

At the same time, Ukrainians in Germany were also actively uniting in nationalist unions, and soon the first conferences of Ukrainian nationalists were held in Prague and Berlin.
In 1929, the UVO and other unions of Ukrainian nationalists united into one large Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) (the organization is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation), while the UVO actually became the military-terrorist organ of the OUN. One of the main goals of Ukrainian nationalists was the fight against Poland, a striking manifestation of which was the famous anti-Polish “Sabotage Action” of 1930: OUN representatives attacked government institutions in Galicia and set fire to the houses of Polish landowners living there.

Conquer Europe!

In 1931, Stepan Bandera joined the OUN, a man whom fate would soon become the head of the entire Ukrainian liberation movement and a symbol of Ukrainian nationalism to this day.

Bandera studied at a German intelligence school and soon became a regional guide in Western Ukraine. He is detained by the authorities many times: for anti-Polish propaganda, for illegally crossing the border and for involvement in an assassination attempt. He organized protests against hunger in Ukraine and against Ukrainians buying Polish products.

On the day of the execution of OUN militants by Bandera, an action was organized in Lviv, during which a synchronized bell ringing was heard throughout the city. The so-called “school action” became particularly effective: Ukrainian schoolchildren, instructed in advance, refused to study with Polish teachers and threw Polish symbols out of schools.
In addition, Stepan Bandera organized a number of assassination attempts on Polish and Soviet officials. For organizing the murder of Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Peracki and other crimes, Bandera was sentenced to hanging in 1935, which, however, was soon commuted to life imprisonment.

During the trial, Bandera and the other organizers of the crime greeted each other with the Roman salute and shouts of “Glory to Ukraine!”, refusing to answer the court in Polish. After this trial, which received great public outcry, the structure of the OUN was revealed by the Polish authorities, and the nationalist organization actually ceased to exist.

In 1938, during the intensification of Hitler's political activities, the OUN was resurrected and hoped for German help in creating a Ukrainian state. OUN theorist Mikhail Kolodzinsky writes about plans to conquer Europe:

“We want not only to possess Ukrainian cities, but also to trample enemy lands, capture enemy capitals, and salute the Ukrainian Empire on their ruins. We want to win the war - a great and cruel war that will make us masters of Eastern Europe.”

Bandera vs Melnikovites

During the Polish Company of the Wehrmacht, the OUN provided little support to German troops, and during the German offensive in 1939, Bandera was released. After this, his activities were connected mainly with the resolution of disagreements that arose in the OUN between Bandera’s supporters - the Banderaites and the Melnikites - supporters of the current leader of the organization.

The political struggle developed into a military one. Since the enmity of two essentially identical organizations was unprofitable for Germany, especially since both organizations nurtured the idea of ​​a national Ukrainian state, which no longer suited Germany, which was already successfully moving to the east, mass arrests of Bandera and Melnikites soon took place by the German authorities.

In 1941, Bandera was imprisoned and then transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In the fall of 1944, Bandera, as a “Ukrainian freedom fighter,” was released by the German authorities. Despite the fact that it was considered inappropriate to take Bandera to Ukraine, the OUN continued to fight against Soviet power until approximately the mid-1950s, collaborating with Western intelligence services during the Cold War. In 1959, Stepan Bandera was assassinated by KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky in Munich.

Trials

During the period of active struggle against the UPA and OUN in 1941 - 1949, according to the NKVD, thousands of military operations were carried out, during which tens of thousands of Ukrainian nationalists were killed. Many families of UPA members were expelled from the Ukrainian SSR, thousands of families were arrested and deported to other regions.

One of the well-known precedents for the trial of Bandera’s supporters is the 1941 show trial of 59 Lvov students suspected of connections with the OUN and anti-Soviet activities. The youngest was 15 years old, the oldest was 30. The investigation lasted about four months; it was found that many of the young people were ordinary members of the OUN, but the students did not plead guilty and declared that they were enemies of the Soviet regime. Initially, 42 people were sentenced to death, and 17 wanted a prison sentence of 10 years.

However, the Supreme Court Collegium eventually commuted the sentence, and 19 of the convicts were shot, while others were given sentences ranging from 4 to 10 years in prison. One of the students was deported abroad.
You can also recall the mention of Ukrainian nationalists at the famous Nuremberg trials. General Lahausen, who acted as a witness, directly stated that Ukrainian nationalists collaborated with the German government: “These detachments were supposed to carry out acts of sabotage behind enemy lines and organize comprehensive sabotage.”

However, despite the obvious evidence of the participation of Bandera and other members of the split OUN in the fight against the Soviet Union, Ukrainian nationalists were not defendants at the Nuremberg trial. The USSR did not even pass a law condemning the OUN and UPA, but the fight against the nationalist underground continued until the mid-1950s, and was, in fact, separate specific punitive acts.

In 1955, they were granted an amnesty in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Victory. According to official documents, as of August 1, 1956, more than 20 thousand OUN members returned from exile and prisons to the western lands of the USSR, including 7 thousand to the Lvov region.

A fourteen-year-old girl cannot calmly look at meat. When they are going to fry cutlets in her presence, she turns pale and trembles like an aspen leaf.

A few months ago, on a sparrow night, armed people came to a peasant hut, not far from the city of Sarny, and stabbed the owners with knives. The girl looked with wide eyes in horror at the agony of her parents.

One of the bandits put the tip of a knife to the child’s throat, but at the last minute a new “idea” was born in his brain.

- Live for the glory of Stepan Bandera! And so that something good does not starve to death, we will leave you food. Come on guys, chop some pork for her!..

The “lads” liked this proposal. They pulled plates and bowls from the shelves, and a few minutes later a mountain of meat from the bleeding bodies of her father and mother grew in front of the girl, numb with despair...

In January 1940, a “split” occurred in the OUN: Bandera broke away from Melnik, and the Gestapo twins separated. This was required by the interests of the twins... The roles were distributed as follows: Melnik was to remain an obvious unconditional lackey of Berlin, Bandera - something like Azef. ...

(In August 1939, Andrei Melnik, at the Second Great Meeting of the OUN in Italy, was proclaimed the successor of the organization’s leader, Yevgeny Konovalets, who was killed in Rotterdam. Some of the congress delegates spoke out against the election of Melnik to the highest post, preferring Stepan Bandera. He and his supporters considered an alliance with Germany as temporary. Melnik, on the contrary, believed that the bet should be placed on Nazi Germany. The OUN split into two factions - OUN(b) (Bandera) and OUN(m) (Melnikov). In April 1941, Bandera’s supporters convened their own Second Great Gathering of Ukrainian Nationalists. In the spring of 1941, the OUN(b) received 2.5 million marks from the Abwehr to conduct a subversive struggle against the USSR. - B.I.)

On June 13, 1941, on the second day after the German invasion of Lviv, Bandera created his own “government” for Ukraine (following the Nazis, the Nachtigal battalion, led by Roman Shukhevych, entered Lviv. - B.I.). Twenty-four hours after this comedy, another happened: the Gestapo arrests Bandera and his “Prime Minister” Stetsk. “Arrests” and... gives him full opportunity to continue leading his gang...

(From July 1, 1941, Bandera’s “people’s” militia of Lvov became subordinate to the SS).

Bandera is put in a Berlin prison, then transferred to the Sachsenhausen camp, where he is well kept. They imprisoned him because of patriotism - that’s what the official version of Bandera’s followers says. In fact, after the massacre in Lvov, Andrei Melnik, bypassed by a younger competitor, was offended and immediately wrote a letter to Hitler and Governor General Frank that “Bandera’s people are behaving unworthily and have created their own government without the Fuhrer’s knowledge.” After which Hitler ordered the arrest of Stepan Bandera and his “government.”

In the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko and another 300 Banderaites were kept separately in the Cellenbau bunker, where they were kept in good conditions. Bandera's members were allowed to meet with each other, and they also received food and money from relatives and the OUN-b. They often left the camp for the purpose of contacts with the “conspiracy” OUN-UPA, as well as with the Friedenthal castle (200 meters from the Zelenbau bunker), which housed a school for OUN agent and sabotage personnel.

(The instructor at this school was a recent officer of the Nachtigal special battalion, Yuri Lopatinsky, through whom Stepan Bandera made contact with the OUN-UPA. - B.I.)

Since the autumn of 1941, Bandera’s OUN has gradually gone “underground”: and the underground, by the way, was quite skillfully organized by Gestapo directors. The invaders had to break the unity of the Ukrainian people at any cost and paralyze the growing partisan movement. And the occupiers relied on Bandera’s OUN group. She was given the task of channeling the anti-German sentiments of the masses in a different direction, preventing the fierce hatred of the Ukrainian people for the German invaders from spilling over into an armed struggle for the liberation of Ukraine.

And Bandera’s supporters begin to act. In the German printing house in Lutsk they print... anti-German leaflets; They arm their so-called UPA with the latest German machine guns. But neither their leaflets nor their machine guns cause much harm to the Germans. No one has yet died from the leaflet itself, and Bandera’s bullets have the peculiarity that they fly not towards the German punitive detachments, but into the chests of Ukrainian and Polish peasants, their wives, mothers and children, and into the backs of the partisans - avengers for the grievances of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples

(From the program documents it follows that the leadership of the UPA “refrains” from fighting Germany. On August 7, 1941, the regional center (Ukrainian Provid) of the OUN-R in Western Ukrainian lands issued a declaration, which, in particular, indicated that the organization should “ "adapt to the existing conditions and must meet the future needs of Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists will take an active part in public work in all areas of national life."

Even when the final defeat of Germany became a matter of near future, Berlin’s Ukrainian agents remained true to themselves and showed themselves to be the most devoted pack of lackeys among all Hitler’s minions in Europe.

True, these professional traitors even today, between one and another of their atrocities, declare “independent” and “conciliar”, while calling themselves an “independent political factor.” But the facts speak about this “independence” of the OUN bandits. The facts are irrefutable, supported by the testimony of the real and only inspirers of the Ukrainian nationalists - the gentlemen from the Gestapo.

Let's give the floor to the documents. Let them drive like an aspen stake into the grave of what for many years was called the stinking term “Ukrainian nationalism.”

In the spring of 1944, the Red Army crossed the Zbruch River in its liberation campaign. Around the same time, Bandera “delegates” came to the German security police and SD of the district (district - B.I.) of Galicia with a statement that the representative of the so-called “Central leadership of the OUN - Bandera” Gerasimovsky wishes “on behalf of the political and military sector of the OUN" to discuss with the Gestapo the possibility of close cooperation against "Bolshevism" in the new conditions.

The Gestapo did not force itself to ask: on March 5, a meeting between Gerasimovsky and the representative of the security police and SD crime commissioner Pappe took place in Ternopil. Apparently, the Gestapo was able to properly assess its Bandera counterparts, sending a criminal specialist to talk with Gerasimovsky...

During this meeting, Gerasimovsky made a statement in which, among other things, he said (according to the transcript of Mr. Pappe’s secretary):

“...The Ukrainian people and Bandera groups clearly understood that they could achieve their independence only with the help of the greatest nation in Europe”... Realizing this, the Ukrainian people (read Ukrainian nationalists - Ya. G.) already stood on the side of the Germans in the first World War, later sought and found support in Germany, studied for German purposes and, finally, made his contribution for Germany both in the Polish-German and German-Soviet wars.”

Gerasimovsky continued:

“We must put an end to the mistake that Bandera’s groups consider Germany their enemy. The Bandera group says that the Ukrainians (Ukrainian nationalists - Ya. G.) would be satisfied with a state form modeled on a protectorate, but this step towards the independence of the Ukrainians was not carried out by Germany: that is why the Bandera group, bound by the idea ... is forced for its political goal work illegally. But still, in illegal work it is strictly stipulated not to act against Germany, but to prepare for a decisive struggle against the Russians. This was convincingly proven by the fact that the Bandera group began to create, arm and train its combat units only in February 1943, that is, at a time when, as a result of events on the Eastern Front, it had to be stated that the Germans would not be able to defeat Russia, as it seemed like it was at the beginning of the war. ...

If in some places acts of anti-German sabotage occurred, then this was never on the orders of the Bandera group, but was done arbitrarily by Ukrainians for criminal reasons...”

At the end of his speech, Gerasimovsky made the following proposals:

“a) the Bandera group completely and unconditionally strengthens... solidarity with all German interests, such as transportation, German construction in the East and the necessary requirements in rear military areas;

b) OUN - the Bandera group puts at the disposal of the German contracting party the intelligence material collected by its intelligence against the Poles, communists and Bolsheviks in order to use it for punitive operations.” ...

Just a few days later, a representative of the security police and SD of the district of Galicia addressed the Chief Fuhrer and Police Colonel of the General Government, Birkamif, with an attitude filled with open irony towards Bandera’s “contractual party”:

“I ask you to urgently inform about the decision of the RCGA, since it is necessary to take into account that the representative of the OUN, the supposed future Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian state, will soon come to me.”

The second meeting of the Gestapo with Gerasimovsky took place on March 23. In his new statement, the OUN representative was no less generous than last time:

“...The OUN will transmit military messages to the Germans from areas behind the Soviet front line. The OUN will keep its combat units behind the Soviet front line and will harm Soviet supplies, supply bases, weapons centers, warehouses - through active sabotage...

Transports with weapons and materials for sabotage must be delivered from the Germans across the front line to the OUPA units in accordance with all the rules of secrecy in order to prevent the Bolshevik regime from giving into its hands the trump card that the Ukrainians (read Ukrainian nationalists - Ya. G.), who remained behind the front line, are German allies and agents.”

On March 28, the same Gerasimovsky had a meeting with the commander of the security police and SD of the district of Galicia, SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Vitiska. When Vitiska asked what the attitude of Bandera’s followers would be to the mobilization of the Ukrainian population by the Germans, the nationalist scoundrel cynically replied:

“The OUN will not create obstacles; Moreover, there is so much manpower in the Ukrainian people (!) that the German occupation authorities can carry out mobilization, and there will still be enough forces left for recruitment into the UPA, and both partners will not interfere with each other.” ...

On April 19, 1944, a meeting of the leaders of the German Abwehrkommandos-101, -202, -305 of the military group “South” was held. Lieutenant Colonel Lindgart (Abwehrkommando 101) in his speech expressed a significant compliment to the OUN members. Just listen:

“Without communication with the OUN, my agent activity is generally impossible.”

Lieutenant Colonel Seeliger (Abwehrkommando 202) was even more eloquent at this meeting:

“....I must practically cover the UPA members on the territory of Galicia and, after training and armament, transfer them by plane to the Soviet side or let a large group pass through front-line breakthroughs. I have been in touch with the UPA for a long time through the intermediary Shukhevych and have already received several people for training.”

But while the Gestapo was consulting, the Red Army was fighting forward, approaching the western borders of Ukraine. ... On June fifteenth, a representative of the security police, in an official letter addressed to the main directorate of the National Research University of the SS - Sturmbannführer and Advisor Pommering, wrote the following:

"...5. VI. 44 years old, N's assistant had another meeting with Gerasimovsky, at which the issue of transferring S- and F-agents across the front line to the Soviet side, as well as leaving F-agents in case the Germans evacuated part of Galicia due to the war was discussed actions. These negotiations also serve the interests of the Sonderkommando Zeppelin stationed here.

As for leaving F- and S-agents to send them behind the front line, Gerasimovsky stated that the UPA maintains the same connection with the army that the security position maintains with the OUN-Bandera group.

“There has long been an agreement between the German army and the UPA that the UPA puts F- and S-agents at the disposal of the army from its ranks. Therefore, all that remains is to introduce the security police to these members of the UPA "..." (Yaroslav Galan. “What has no name.” Yaroslav Galan was brutally killed by Bandera in 1949).

In 1944, Soviet troops cleared Western Ukraine of fascists. Many members of the OUN-UPA fled with the German troops. The hatred of local residents for the OUN-UPA in Volyn and Galicia was so high that they themselves betrayed them and killed them. In order to activate the OUN members and support their spirit, the Nazis decide to release Bandera and 300 of his supporters, incl. Ya. Stetsko and Melnyka. This happened on September 25, 1944.

The German press published numerous articles about the UPA's successes in the fight against the Bolsheviks, calling UPA members "Ukrainian freedom fighters." Bandera stayed in Berlin, at the Abwehr dacha. There was a numerous stream of messages, explanations, dispatches, “declarations” and “memoranda” addressed to Hitler, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg and other Fuhrers of Nazi Germany. Constantly justifying himself in his letters and asking for assistance and support, Bandera proved his loyalty to the Fuhrer and the German army and tried to convince of the extreme need for the OUN-b for Germany. According to the head of the secret unit of Abwehr-2, Erwin Stolze, Bandera was recruited by the Abwehr and later appeared in the Abwehr file cabinet under the nickname Gray.

After leaving the camp, Stepan Bandera immediately went to work as part of the 202nd Abwehr team in Krakow and began training sabotage detachments of the OUN-UPA.

Irrefutable proof of this is the testimony of former Gestapo and Abwehr officer Lieutenant Siegfried Müller, given during the investigation on September 19, 1945.

“On December 27, 1944, I prepared a group of saboteurs to transfer them to the rear of the Red Army on special missions. Stepan Bandera, in my presence, personally instructed these agents and through them transmitted to the UPA headquarters an order to intensify subversive work in the rear of the Red Army and establish regular radio communications with Abwehrkommando-202” (Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine f.57. Op.4. D .338. L.268-279).

With the fall of the Third Reich, the OUN(b) quickly found common interests with the intelligence services of England and the United States. After Churchill's March 1946 speech, which proclaimed the beginning of the Cold War, the OUN, like other anti-Soviet formations in Eastern Europe, became of particular interest to the intelligence services of Great Britain, the United States and, to some extent, France. Supporters of the OUN(b) were especially active in these contacts.

In January-February 1946, the OUN Center held a conference of the organization's leaders, at which the creation of foreign units of the OUN (OUN ZCH) was announced. At the same time, in refugee and displaced persons camps on the territory of the Western allies, there was an active struggle between the OUN(b) and OUN(m) for new members and influence over the camp administration, as before, the initiative remained in the hands of the OUN(b).

After the collapse of the USSR, Western intelligence services organized the introduction of the OUN(b) into the political life of Ukraine. In 1992, on the initiative of Yaroslava Stetsko, the political party “Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists” (CUN) was created on the basis of the OUN (b). Along with the KUN, the public wing of the OUN(b) was preserved - the OUN-revolutionary (OUN(r). At first it was subordinated to the KUN, but later fell out of its control. De facto, the fundamental program principles of the OUN(b) were included in the charter KUHN unchanged.

Under the leadership of NATO instructors, Bandera combat detachments were formed and trained. With the full connivance of Yanukovych. Considerable funds were transferred for the maintenance of Bandera gangs. It was these gangs that spurred on, and, in the end, then saddled the Kiev Maidan 2014.

Ramil Gizatullin:

“In front of my wife’s grandmother, a 19-year-old partisan liaison, Bandera’s men tore the skin off her two one-year-old twin children! The name of the tortured woman is Anna Petrovna Prots (maiden name Kozak), besides her and the partisans, her husband Ivan Stepanovich Prots was also tortured and died; on his chest, before finishing off, Bandera’s men carved a star. Now her eldest daughter is alive - Yaroslava Ivanovna Markohai (maiden name Prots). In 1949, as the daughter of a partisan, she and her family were transported to the village. Klenovoe, Artyomovsky district, Donetsk region. Then many families of conscripts were resettled from Western Ukraine to Donbass due to a threat to their lives. Four months ago, I helped take my mother-in-law with her daughter and grandson out of Nikiforovka, as well as my wife’s relatives from Slavyansk (Cherevkovka district) and from Artyomovsk. In 1943, Nizhnye Ustriki was part of Ukraine, after the Second World War it was returned to Poland. Many Ukrainians still live there.”

From the list of “135 tortures and atrocities applied by OUN-UPA terrorists to civilians”:

“Driving a large, thick nail into the skull of the head. Ripping off hair and skin from the head (scalping). Carving an “eagle” on the forehead, knocking out eyes, nose, ears, breaking the jaw. Punching a sharpened thick wire right through from ear to ear, cutting off lips and tongue. Cutting the throat and pulling out through the hole of the tongue. Cutting the throat and inserting a piece into the hole. Tearing the mouth from ear to ear, cutting the neck with a knife or sickle.

Rolling the head back, crushing the head, putting it in a vice and tightening the screw, cutting off the head with a sickle. Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back, breaking the bones of the ribs of the chest. Cutting off women's breasts and pouring salt on the wounds. Sawing the body in half with a carpenter's saw..."

At the Donetsk airport, DPR fighters found the bodies of three killed tank crews who were tortured by Ukrainian fascists. As it became known, the men were serving in a separate battalion when they were caught by Bandera’s men. The Novorossiya fighters had their teeth pulled out; in addition, the soldiers tied their legs with wire, attached them to a tank, and dragged them along the ground for several hours on the site in front of the airport.

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Boris IKHLOV